Rossini: Album pour les enfants adolescents

This album of 12 character sketches for piano dates from the 'Samedi-soirs' of Rossini's last years in Paris. These short pieces are frequently witty, sometimes virtuosic, always engaging, and the Netherlands-based Paolo Giacometti plays them on a restored 1858 Pleyel piano with appropriate deftness and admirable musicality. Keith Potter

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Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:49 pm

COMPOSERS: Rossini
LABELS: Channel
WORKS: Album pour les enfants adolescents
PERFORMER: Paolo Giacometti (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: CCS 12398

This album of 12 character sketches for piano dates from the 'Samedi-soirs' of Rossini's last years in Paris. These short pieces are frequently witty, sometimes virtuosic, always engaging, and the Netherlands-based Paolo Giacometti plays them on a restored 1858 Pleyel piano with appropriate deftness and admirable musicality. Keith Potter

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